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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Travel to the turn of the 19th century to experience the Romantic musical, literary, and artistic movement
Sir Walter Scott Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Charlotte Brontë J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway William Blake: Pity Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, explained
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Travel to the turn of the 19th century to experience the Romantic musical, literary, and artistic movement
A discussion of the key events and personalities of the late 18th- and early 19th-century...
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Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, explained
Saturn Devouring His Son was once a mural Francisco Goya painted inside...
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Myth-making in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
The allegorical figure of Liberty is a French trope inspired by antiquity.
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Why did early critics hate The Death of Sardanapalus?
Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired...
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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1830; in...
Josse Christophel/Alamy
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1817, in the...
Heritage Image Partnership Ltd./Alamy
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer Sir Walter Scott,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsc-07693)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English Romantic novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, oil on canvas by Richard Rothwell,...
© AISA—Everett/Shutterstock.com
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist Charlotte Brontë, chalk drawing by George Richmond, 1850; in the...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway
Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway, oil on canvas by J.M.W....
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
William Blake: Pity
Pity, color print finished in pen and watercolor by William Blake, c. 1795;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate, London; photographs, G. Robertson, A.C. Cooper Ltd.
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore Géricault, c. 1819; in...
Photos 12—Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin: Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Charles...
Adrian Pingstone

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major
Excerpt from Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 61, by Ludwig van Beethoven,...
Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Excerpt from Harold en Italie, by Hector Berlioz, 1834. Written for viola...
Carl Maria von Weber: “Einst träumte meiner sel'gen Base”
“Einst träumte meiner sel'gen Base,” Ännchen's aria (No. 13, Romance) from Act III...
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